The Matrix was a virtual world, unrelated to the real physical body. That was why, after Zion's human resistance hacked into the Matrix, every one of them could leap across rooftops, fight ten men alone, and kill without batting an eye.
Of course, they had their limits. They were far from a match for Agent Smith and the other 'Antivirus Software' agents.
Russell was the same. Having just entered this illusory world, his mind was still constrained by its old habits.
Take Lightning Rod and Charge Storage, two passive skills, for example. He had assumed that without his physical body, he would be unable to store electricity. Yet when he appeared like the Terminator, electricity had coiled around him, and nothing had gone wrong.
"The bigger your mind, the greater your power. As long as I believe I'm strong enough, I'm the god of this world..."
Russell muttered to himself. His mind was not that big; he did not seek to become a god. If his original powers could simply manifest at ten times their usual strength, that would be enough. The Antivirus Software agents had it rough too. He could not bully them too badly.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Several gunshots rang out in the distance. Russell folded away the wings on his back and turned around. On a rooftop, a man in a suit and tie was chasing a long-legged woman clad head to toe in tight black leather, followed by a group of slow-reacting American police officers.
In any other world, it would surely have been an FBI pursuit of a female thief, perhaps with an FBI warning at the beginning.
But in The Matrix, the FBI agents in black suits and ties were Antivirus Software. Their purpose was to eliminate rogue programs, and only after that did